Rodney Atkins Quotes
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
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I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
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Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
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I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.
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I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.
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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
